In a legal filing, a Hamas founder argues that the group has the right to use armed resistance to achieve Palestinian liberation—and that Britain is crushing honest debate about its aims.
Bus explosion in Tel Aviv, no injuries; in Jerusalem, Jewish man attacks Israeli woman with axe, mistaking her for a Christian; Bibas family; 8-year-old Palestinian girl blinded by Israeli bullet; more.
Dr. Salman H. Abu-Sitta, a Palestinian academic, is renowned for his extensive work documenting Palestine’s land and people. He has created a practical plan for Palestinian refugees to exercise their right of return – and it’s neither difficult nor intrusive.
Israel is a chronic liability that squanders billions of American dollars, drags the US into wars and whose genocidal treatment of the Palestinians is destroying America’s moral pretensions in most of the world. Once this is understood, support for Israel will collapse, and voters may apply enough pressure to reorient U.S. policy in line with genuine national interests.
The Wikipedia entry on Alison Weir is among the items targeted by Israel partisans. It contains numerous false claims and misinformation. Below is a point by point rebuttal. It is crucial that Wikipedia correct this.
Hamas is alive and well; West Bank is officially a “combat zone”; Palestinian journalists imprisoned like never before; Int’l Criminal Court decision on Netanyahu war crimes expected soon; US files criminal charges against Hamas members; Netanyahu blatantly erases Palestine from the map; Trump adviser David Friedman has a plan for a Greater Israel; US in “despair” about ceasefire; UK’s David Cameron could have stopped arms sales to Israel months ago; Columbia U students keep protesting for Palestine; more
Advocates say Israel is using the conflict in Gaza to distract from its accelerated drive for full annexation of the West Bank.
A tech firm claiming to root out online “disinformation” is actually a creator of it. Cyabra is an Israeli company founded by military intelligence officers, half of whose employees have left to rejoin the Israeli military to fight in Gaza – and one who continues to openly work with Israeli military intelligence to this day.
In “Our Palestine Question,” Geoffrey Levin, assistant professor of Middle Eastern and Jewish studies at Emory University, recovers the voices of those Jews who first called for an honest reckoning of the plight of Israel’s Palestinian population.
Israel and its partisans frequently emphasize Hamas’s 1988 charter, while failing to mention that Hamas issued a new document in 2017…